Cross-Border Insolvency – Trier, Germany
The Academy of European Law (ERA) (Europäische Rechtsakademie) presents Cross-Border Insolvency Proceedings, March 26-27, in Trier.
January 15th Colloquia/Workshops
Richard Schragger (Virginia Law), Mobile Capital, Local Economic Regulation, and the Democratic City
Katie Porter (Iowa Law) Saving up for Bankruptcy
Lee Epstein (Northwestern Law)
JJ Prescott (Michigan Law), The Impact of Attorney Compensation on the Timing of Class Action Settlements
December 2nd Colloquia/Workshops
Steve Smith (San Diego Law), Secularism v. Separation of Church and State
NYU Law, Economics, and Politics
Bina Agarwal (University of Delhi), Bargaining, Gender Equality, and Legal Change
Northwestern Law and Economics
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Angela Onwuachi Willig (Iowa Law), Cracking the Egg: Which Came First Stigma or Affirmative Action?
Guyora Binder (Buffalo Law), Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions
Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum – Stanford, CA
Stanford and Yale Law Schools announce the tenth session of the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to be held at Stanford Law School on May 29-30, 2009, and seek submissions for this meeting. Jump to full post
Bankruptcy and Distress Resolution – Ghent
The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the Financial Law Institute of Ghent University will host an academic conference on Bankruptcy and Distress Resolution Dec. 12-13, 2008. The call for papers deadline (for full papers) is Aug. 15, 2008.
April 25, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Jessie Hill (Case Western Law), Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: The Establishment Clause and Change in Meaning Over Time
Haider Hamoudi (Pittsburgh Law), Realism in Islamic Jurisprudence
Ed Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
April 14, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Adrienne Davis (Virginia Law), Slavery & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Case
Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law, Berger Fellow), The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle
Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke Philosophy), A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
Vicki Jackson (Georgetown Law), Constitutional Cosmology: Convergence, Resistance, and Engagement
Oliver Hart (Harvard Economics), Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law), Constitutional Law, International Law, Public Law
Jean Braucher (Arizona Law), The Supreme Court’s 5-4 Rejection of Textualist Interpretation of the Bankruptcy Code in Marrana v. Citizens Bank of Massachusetts
James Fishkin (Stanford Communication), An Online Experiment in Democracy: Deliberative Polling for Democratic Reform
Alison Morantz (Stanford Law), Rethinking the Great Compromise: What Happens When Large Companies Opt Out of Workers Compensation?
USC Law, Economics & Organization
Devah Pager (Princeton Sociology), Race at Work: A Field Experiment of Discrimination in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Vanderbilt Faculty Presentations
Gary J. Wolfe (Seward & Kissel), Golden Ocean–Taking Supertankers from Junk Bonds to Restructuring Bankruptcy to (Someone Else’s) Profit, and Fighting Every Step of the Way
April 11, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Ajay Mehrotra (Indiana Law), The Public Control of Corporate Power: The 1909 Corporate Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment, and the Legal Foundations of the Modern Fiscal State
Georgetown International Human Rights
Balakrishnan Rajagopal (MIT), The Limits of Legalizing Social Rights
Brian Tamanaha (St. John’s Law), The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists
Adam Levitin (Georgetown Law), Mortgage Market Sensitivity to Bankruptcy Modification
Robert Aronson (Washington Law), Winning at All Costs: Ethics and Integrity in Law, Sports, and Film
March 27, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Rennard Strickland (Chapman Law), Keepers of the Springs: A Defense of the American Legal Profession
A. E. Dick Howard (Virginia Law), The Changing Face of the Supreme Court: From the Warren Court to the Roberts Court
Boston College
Linda Beale (Wayne State), Tax Patents: At the Crossroads of Tax and Patent Law
Kim Ferzan (Rutgers-Camden Law), Beyond the Special Part
Elinor Ostrom (Indiana-Bloomington Cognitive Science Program)
Clayton Gillette (Columbia Law), Tacit Agreement, Investment, and Contract Design
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Anti-Bankruptcy
Margaret Blair (Vanderbilt Law), Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce
William Forbath (Texas Law), History, Memory and “Transformative Law”: Treatment Action Campaign and the Politics of Rights in South Africa
Rip Verkerke (Virginia Law), Legal Innocence and Information-Forcing Rules
NYU Tax Policy & Public Finance
Andrea Louis Campbell (MIT Political Science), How Americans Think About Taxes: Public Opinion and the American Fiscal State
Colin Mayer (Oxford Business), Where Do Firms Incorporate: Deregulation and the Cost of Entry
Sean Murphy (George Washington Law), The Jus Ad Bellum in View of New Security Threats
Matt Adler (Penn Law), Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition
Alex Glashausser (Washburn Law), The Misbegotten Modern Doctrine of Federal Question Jurisdiction
Shameem Black (Yale English), Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice
Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown Law), Do Insurer Reserving Practices Drive Liability Insurance Premium Cycles?: An Empirical Study at the Claim Level
March 5, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Pauline Kim (Washington Law), Exploring Panel Effects: Deliberation and Strategy on the United States Courts of Appeals
Lloyd Bonfield (New York Law School), Lord Chief Justice King’s Reports – 1714-22: ‘Commercial Law’
Douglas Baird (Chicago Law), Financial Innovation and the New Chapter 11
Giuseppe De Palo (Hamline Law), The Globalization of the ‘ADR Movement
Megan Reid (USC Religion), Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies
Washington
Signe Brunstad (Washington Law) & Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Law), Cross-Border Cultural Teaching Experience: License Negotiation and Mock Trial with European Law Students
March 3, 2008 Colloquia/Workshops
Vikrant Vig (London Business), Securitization and Screening: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Back Securities
Adrienne Davis (Virgina Law), Slavert & Shadow Families: Re-Thinking Miscegenation Regulation Through the Lens of Castle
Ian Ayres (Yale Law), Buying Stock on Margin Can Reduce Retirement Risk
Sheryll Cashin (Georgetown Law), Race, Class and the American Dream
Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law), Power Without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment
Rebecca M. Bratspies (CUNY Law), The Need for Trust in Regulatory Systems
Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law), Intellectual Property
Anthony J. Sebok (Brooklyn Law), The Inauthentic Claim
David Harvey (CUNY Anthropology), From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession
Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School), When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for ‘Empirical Legal Studies’
Austen Parrish (Southwestern Law), Reclaiming International Law from Extraterritoriality
USC Law, Economics and Organization
Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law), Creditor Control and Conflict in Chapter 11
Washington University in St. Louis
Eleazer Klein (Schulte Roth & Zabel), Current Issues in Private Placement: A Case Study
Consumer Rights Litigation – Washington, DC
The National Consumer Law Center presents its 16th Annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference, Nov. 8-11, 2007, Washington, DC.
In addition to the main conference, there will be day-long “intensives” on particular topics:
- Class Action Symposium;
- Doing Well While Doing Good;
- Stopping Foreclosures: Loan Workouts, Servicing Claims, and Bankruptcy Strategies;
- Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending through Litigation: An Introduction to the Evolving Marketplace and Legal Theories;
- Attacking Debt Collectors’ Suits, Repossessions, and Arbitrations.
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